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Instana

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Environment label

Hi, We use different Instana backends in our organisation. Each Instana backend is responsible for an environment (DEV/ACC/PRD). It would be nice that we can add an indication of the environment (a label for example) in the top banner of Instana. ...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Planned for future release

IBM Instana is not supporting to capture the data from ACE version 13.

as my project requirement, we configured the ACE version 13 in Instana, unfortunately we are not able to see any data in Instana UI and we got confirmation with IBM support team on this as well. for more details, please look in this this ticket Ca...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Support IBM App Connect v13.0

Currently IBM Instana only support IBM ACE v11 and v12. We have setup latest version v13 for IBM ACE in our environment. When can Instana support this new version?
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Functionality already exists

Add Instana API for application event and log messges

We have clients need to get useful info from Instana API, currently there is no API for Application -> Log Message and Application -> Error Message, can you please help to add those APIs?
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 2 Future consideration

Filtering Snowflake smart alerts by database username or account

We are trying to create smart alerts to get alerts when queries are taking longer than a specific threshold. While creating the alert we are trying to filter by only specific snowflake usernames/account.
8 months ago in Instana / DB2 2 Functionality already exists

Include Custom TAGS to Events Rest WEB API

Support to tag creation on events API in order to create synthetic events based on contextual information, similar to trace tags. Widgets be capable of filter events based on tags sent by event API. Attached image describe a sample of event API us...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

On the Application Dashboard, Provide Total Wait (Latency x Calls) in the dashboards. This would definitely could be added to the top services widget.

The App Dashboard doesn't really let you know what is the busiest service or endpoint that has the most wait. The calls let you know it's busy, but you don't know if it's a problem because it could be a really fast cached call. The latency is good...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Add business metrics to Instana traces for IIB and ACE

The current implementation of both IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and App Connect Enterprise (ACE) could emit business metrics through monitoring events which are published through MQ topics. A similar implementation with the connection through OpenTel...
about 2 years ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1 Future consideration

Let integration with elasticsearch include filters of entire application perspective

Dear colleagues, at the moment button appears only on host, port, container dashboard: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=logging-elk#accessing-elk-from-the-instana-ui and leads to the correspondent item only. Please c...
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Call topology diagrams between applications

Dear colleagues, Customer asks for applications dependency diagrams that would have additional options to show connections to other defined applications perspectives (excluding "All Services"). Currently there is only option to show the connection...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration